From the FDA's Archives: The Relaxacizor (FDA)

Fake 'Mad Men' ad campaign but real product

OK, raise your hands if you remember "The Relaxacizor," a device sold in the 1960s that supposedly built muscle mass while helping people lose weight without performing any actual exercise.

No fair if you caught the fake ad campaign for the product on the first season of "Mad Men."

On FDA Voice, the agency's blog, two staffers take a look back at the product and the FDA's dogged and ultimately successful effort to get the device -- which they describe as "of course, too good to be true" -- off the market.